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Size icon Size Property Sheet

Available in: Actual Window Manager, Actual Window Guard.

The Size property sheet helps you to control in which ways the target window can be resized.

Size Property Sheet

At startup to checkbox - mark it to resize the target window as defined at its startup.

Fix minimal size to checkbox - mark it to keep the target window not to be smaller than the defined size.

Fix maximal size to checkbox - mark it to keep the target window not to be larger than the defined size.

Via title button checkbox - mark it to add the Resize title button to target window's title bar. If you left-click this button the target window will be resized as defined; right-click displays button's context menu.

Via window menu item checkbox - mark it to add the Resize window sub-menu to target window's system window menu.

Via border right-click checkbox - mark it to enable target window's stretching by right-clicking its border parts.

Save size on exit checkbox - mark it to save the current target window size upon its closing and restore this size next time the target window will be opened.

After Moving To Another Monitor group - contains radio buttons allowing to define how target window's size should be adjusted when the target window is moved to another monitor:

  • leave as is radio button - size remains the same. This can be useful if all your monitors have the same resolution so no adjustment is required
  • keep aspect ratio radio button - if target monitor has a lower/higher resolution than the previous one then window will be reduced/enlarged appropriately so it will take the same relative amount of screen space on any monitor
  • fit target monitor radio button - keep window wholly within target monitor boundaries. If window exceeds these boundaries then it will be shifted towards target monitor's top-left; if it still exceeds the boundaries then its size will be reduced appropriately

Adjusting Window Size

You can define a particular window size by using the following standard visual controls:

Size Controls

  • Width checkbox - mark it to consider the provided width value while applying the defined size
  • Width edit field - here you can type a value (zero or positive integer) in according to selected measure units
  • Width combo box - here you can select the desired measure units (pixels, percent of current monitor's width or percent of entire desktop's width) for a value typed in the edit field
    Note  If you have only a single monitor then "current monitor" and "desktop" are equivalent.
  • Height checkbox - mark it to consider the provided height value while applying the defined size
  • Height edit field - here you can type a value (zero or positive integer) in according to selected measure units
  • Height combo box - here you can select the desired measure units (pixels, percent of current monitor's height or percent of entire desktop's height) for a value typed in the edit field
    Note  If you have only a single monitor then "current monitor" and "desktop" are equivalent
  • Window Finder icon - use this magic tool to retrieve actual values for both width and height from a particular window
  • Predefined button - click it to select the size from the list of sizes predefined at Resize Action options

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 Last modified: April 14, 2007.